Asahi Shimbun President Cites Errors in Reporting on Fukushima Investigation

TOKYO—The president of a leading Japanese newspaper critical of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policies apologized Thursday over errors in its reporting on controversial subjects, and promised to carry out reforms.

Tadakazu Kimura, president of the left-leaning Asahi Shimbun newspaper, said mistakes were made in the paper's scoop on leaked testimony of the late manager of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant, and said he would remove the paper's executive editor from his post.